{"product_id":"9780007509232-mr-atkinsons-rum-contract","title":"Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Story of a Tangled Inheritance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Rarely has family history been so vivid’ JENNY UGLOW\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘An extraordinarily original work’ AMANDA FOREMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘Rarely has family history been so vivid’ JENNY UGLOW\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003e‘An extraordinarily original work’ AMANDA FOREMAN\u003c\/strong\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e          \u003cp\u003eLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons’ wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans. Drawing on his ancestors’ private correspondence, Richard Atkinson pieces together their unsettling story, from the weather-beaten house in Cumbria where they once lived to the ruins of their sugar estates in Jamaica. This extraordinarily original work of detective biography is also a uniquely personal account of one of the most disturbing chapters in Britain’s colonial past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536433914230,"sku":"9780007509232","price":9.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27129418.jpg?v=1774288986","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780007509232-mr-atkinsons-rum-contract","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}